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The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has warned against age falsification in the forthcoming National Youth Games scheduled for October in Ilorin, Kwara State.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Mohammed Manga, on Tuesday in Abuja.
According to the statement, the Director of Grassroots Sports Development in the Ministry, Dr Bode Durotoye stated that the 2021 Youth Games has been going on as scheduled in the timeline. He revealed that the Zonal Elimination for eight team sports has just been concluded in the six geo-political zones in the country.
Durotoye said there will be sanctions against states and athletes that falsify age, engage in the use of performance enhancing substances, misrepresent the disability status of special athletes amongst others.
